Southwest Philly Church of the Nazarene

Southwest Philly Church of the Nazarene is a church in Philadelphia, PA 19142. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, PA, 19142

Southwest Philly Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 152 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Pennsylvania — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.

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The community around Southwest Philly Church of the Nazarene

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

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  • Child Poverty: 52.2% (34.9–69.4%)
  • Poverty Rate: 42.5% (31.4–53.6%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
  • Unemployment: 22.5% (12.7–32.3%)
  • Diabetes: 19.0%
  • Obesity: 41.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.

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